Corset



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Sept. 14, 192e. 1,599,640

' V. BUCHANAN CORSET Filed 0G12. l0, 1921 2 Sheets-Shee''I 2 Patented Sept. 14, 19,26.

UNITED STATESA PATENT 1,599,640 oFFicE.

VITA BUCHANAN, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

CORSET.

Application led October 10, 1921. Serial No.I 506,631.

My invention relates to improvements in corsets, and the same has for its object to provi-de a corset which will fit perfectly, be comfortable to the wearer, and which will permit of the same being conformed fully to the ligure of the wearer.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a corset which may be readily adjusted to the ligure, lower rear edges closely to the buttocks of the wearer. 4

Further, said invention has for its ob- I ject..to provide a corset having separate seat -ing edges, and

portions which may be severally` conformed closely to the buttocks ofthe wearer so as to leave no ridge or line at the lower edgeof the corset which will be visible through the skirt or Igarment worn over the same.

Further, said invention has for its object to provide a corset having a pairof separate elastic inserts or seat portions, each having a pair of securing members extending therefrom, and connected to an attaching portion adapted for securement to a stocking whereby to cause said inserts or seat portions tol fit snugly over the buttocks of the wearer when the parts are duly seciired in position.V Other objects will in part be obvious and in part be pointed out hereinafter.`

To the attainment of the aforesaid objects and ends, my invention consists in the novel details of construction, and in the combination, connection and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and then pointed out in the claims.

1 In the accompanying drawings lFigure l 1s an illustrative view showing one form of corset constructed according to,

and embodying my said iiiventionin posi-- tion upon the wearer;

Fig. 2 is a similar View, shows the corset from the back and in a different position; i Fig. 3 is a back or outside View, spread out, showing-a front lace corset; Fgi. 4 is a detail back view illustrating a modification, and

Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail face view of rone lof the attaching members or pads.

In said drawings, 10 designates a corset which for the purpose of illustrating my invention is herein shown as formed of two halves or parts 10a, laced together at their rear edges, and open at their front or meetprovided along said meeting edges with suitable fastening means.

and be conformed at its of inelastic fabric and are provided at each side wth vertical casings 11, and at the center of the back are provided a pair of shorter casings 12. Intermediate the side casings 11 and the front meeting edges are provided casings 13, and intermediate said side casings 11 and the back casings 12- are casings 14. 15 denote casings arranged along the front meeting edges of the corset. The said casings 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 are adapted to receive the usual stays.

' The lower rear corners of the hcorset halves or parts 10a, which constituteessentially the seat portion of thegarment are cut away, and in place thereofelastic inserts 16 are secured.

Each of saidelastic inserts 16 has its in.- ner edge secured to the body of the corset along one yof the casings 14. They up er edge of each insert 16 is curved downwar ly from its secu-redcorner, and is secured along said curved edge to the lower cut-away edge of the corset directly below the lower ends of the back casings 12.

The lower edge of each elastic insert 16 is reversely curved and has its opposite lower corners extended to form downwardly and outwardly extending elastic members or vided with adjusting buckles orvclasps 19, and at their'lower ends with fastening devices 20 adaptedy to engage the upper edge or hem of the stocking at the front of the eg. Y.

and 26, respectively, denote the usual side and `front stocking supporters.

The elastic threads' yof the inserts or seat portions 16 extend vertically, that is to say, up and down, and include the straps.- 17 so that the said inserts and straps will be more yielding "in 'a vertical direction than in a transverse or horizontal direction, whereby, when the inserts 16, and the straps 17 are placed under tension or strain by the pads 23 and the stocking engaging fasteners 24, the lower edge of each insert 16 will be drawn taut, and the insert itself Vlrcaused to embrace snugly one of the buttocks.

In connection with the modificationsv the elastic straps 17 of the elasticinserts or I devices 20, are

seat portions 16, instead of having fastening provided with eyes 21 adapted to engage with studs or other suitable cooperating fastening devices 22 secured to the upper corners of attaching members or pads 23 which are provided vat their lower corners with one or more fastening devices 24C adapted to engage with the upper edge or hem'f Ythe stocking at the front of the leg.

The operation of the corset will be obvious v from the foregoing description. It is merely lnecessary to note that by reason of the fact that the elastic inserts or seats are more yieldingiin a vertical and diagonal direction than in a horizontal or transverse direction', the instant the same and thestraps or-mem bers 17 are placed under. tension the lower rate inserts or parts 1,6, each of which is provided with two separate securing members whose ends may be y"secured directly to the upper edges of the'stockings, as shown at Figs. 1 and 2, or be detachably secured `to one of said attaching pads 23, which latter, in turn, engages with the upper front edge of the stocking, the lower corners of said inserts 16 and the straps 17 of said inserts or parts 16 will be caused to embrace and extend wholly .around each-buttock and lthigh and thus hold the several parts under tension without imposing too great a strain 'upon the stocking.

Having thus described my said invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. vA corset comprising a body part adapted to be secured together to confine the bodvf of the wearer, a plurality of seat portions each havingl free ends terminating in diagonally downwardly extending members, and means for securing said diagonally downwardly extending members to a stocking of the wearer, substantially as specified.

2. A corset comprising a body part adapt-v ed to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer, a plurality of seat portions each having lfreeends terminating in inwardly, downwardlyand forwardly extending members, and meansfor severally securing the ends of said diagonally extending members to' a' stocking of the wearer, sub-v stantially as specified.

3.l A corset comprising a body part adapted to be secured-togetherto confine the body of the wearer, a plurality of elastic seat portions each having free ends, members extending diagonally downwardly from the opposite corners of said seat portions, and

means for securing the opposite -ends of said y vseat portions, at the front of the le'g,`to a stocking of the wearer, substantially asI specified. y i

4.' A corset comprising a body part adapted to be. secured together' to confine the body nof the wearer, a plurality of seat portions each having free ends terminating in diagonally extending members, and means serving to unite the diagonally extending members of each -seat portion, substantially as specified.

' 5. A corset comprising a substantiallyfinelastic body part adapted to be secured together to confine the body of the wearer,a plurality of yielding inserts at the lower rear portion thereof; said inserts havingv ends, securing means extending diagonally downwardly from the opposite ends of each insert, and an attaching member secured to said diagonally-extending securing means and a-daptedto engage with a stocking for holding its respective yielding insert under tension, substantially as specitied.

6. A corset comprising a substantially inelastic body part vadapted to be secured vtogether to confine the body of the wearer, a plurality of elastic seat portions having ends, securing members extending from the opposite lower corners of each of said elastic seat portions, and means adapted to engage with a stocking-for securing said securing mem- Vbers together andhol'din'g their respective i seat portion under tension, substantially as specified. x

7. A corset comprising a substantially 1nelastic body part, means for securing the same together, elastic seat portions at the lower rear portions of said body part; said seat portions having ends, securing members extending diagonally downwardly and forwardly from .the opposite lower corners of each of said seat portions, and an attaching member engaging the ends of said diagonally extending members and adapted to engage with a stocking of the wearer, substantially as specified. Y Y l 8. A corset comprising a substantially in-` elastic body part, elastic seat portions secured along part of their edges to the lower rear portion of said body parti saidl seat portions having ends, elastic members formed integrally with said seat portions and extending from thef free lower corners of each seat portion, securingmembers extending frm said elastic members, and an attaching member adapted for connection with the ends of each pair of said securing members and with a stocking^of the wearer for holding said seat under tension, substantially as speciiied.

9. A corset comprising a substantially inelastic body part, a pair of elastic seat portions secured to the lower rear portion of said body part, elastic members extending downwardly from the opposite lower corners` of each seat portion, adjustable securing members extending from the ends of said elastic members, a pair of attaching mem-l bers, means for detaohably securing each of said attaching members to the adjustable members carried `by each of Said seat portions, and means for detachably securing said attaching members severally to the stockings of the wearer, substantially as 10 tember, one thousand Vnine hundred and l5 twenty-one.

VITA BUCHANAN. 

